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again, this time depositing their eggs in the old eyrie from which all 

 except the last set of eggs have been obtained. Again they were 

 unfortunate, Mr. Bennett removing their second set of eggs, three in 

 number, May 23d, at which time incubation had just commenced. 

 The birds remained about the mountain all the summer, and from 

 the anxiety they manifested in August it appears not improbable 

 that they had laid a third time, and at this late period had unfledged 

 young."* Mr. Harold Herrick states that it is common on the Island 

 of Grand Menan, N. B., where it "breeds on the cliffs, but in such 

 inaccessible situations that its nest is rarely taken. There is a place 

 between 'Fish Head' and the 'Old Bishop' known as the 'Seven 

 Day's Work,' where the cliff is divided into seven strata as sharply 

 defined as lines of masonry. On an indentation in the face of this 

 cliff, about one hundred feet from the top, and one hundred and fifty 

 feet from the bottom, a pair of these Falcons have had their eyrie for 

 a succession of years, secure alike from the assaults of the most zeal- 

 ous naturalist, and the small boy of bird's-egging proclivities."! 



Mr. W. W. Coe, of Portland, Conn., tells me that while duck 

 shooting a few years since, as the birds rose at the report of his gun, 

 a Duck Hawk dove, struck a Teale, on the wing, and carried it off! 

 Dr. Wood writes : " In the vicinity of their breeding places they are 

 a terror to the poultry as well as a dread to the farmer, for there 

 they usually hunt in pairs, one following directly after the other, 

 and if the first one misses the game, the other is sure to pick it up ; 

 there is no escaping the two. This is the universal testimony of all 

 the farmers living in the vicinity of the cliffs where they breed. One 

 of my collectors went over one hundred miles to get a nest of their 

 eggs, from only hearing a farmer in the vicinity of the cliff describe 

 their manner of hunting ; knowing from this circumstance alone that 

 it must be the Duck Hawk."| 



161. FalCO COlumbariuS Linne. Pigeon Hawk. 



Resident, but rare in summer, and not often seen in winter. It is 

 not uncommon here in spring and fall. Dr. Wm. Wood tells me that 

 he has found it about East Windsor Hill, Conn., in May, June, and 

 July, but failed to discover the nest. He is not, of course, perfectly 



* Notes on some of the Rarer Birds of Mass., p. 10-11, 1869. 



f Herrick's Partial Catalogue of the Birds of Grand Menan, p. 10, 1873. 



\ Am. Nat., vol. v, No. 2J p. 82, April, 1871. 



